Bye Felicia! 5 Everyday Sayings You Didn’t Know Were Movie Quotes

Remember that time your mom said “Show me the money!” when you went to Cache Creek with your folks? Or how about the time your dad said “Very niiiice!” in his most inauthentic Kazakhstani accent after nailing the Christmas decorations? We all like to think our parents are the only ones uncool enough to reference movies that have been referenced to death. But you’d be wrong. Here are five movie quotes that have permeated our vernacular to the point that we forgot where they come from.

“Bye, Felicia!”’

Friday (1995)Ah, millennials. We’re so good at pop culture. And yet so bad at it. Take this relatively new term of endearment that has become a stand-in for “Fuck off.” The phrase began circulating back in 2015. A coworker of mine dropped it on me about eight months ago.

My first response was, “Why are you quoting Friday at me?”

She looked confused. “What’s Friday?”

Ohhhhh boy. This one comes from a scene in which Felicia, local drug user and borderline beggar, asks protagonist Craig if she can borrow his VCR (after asking to borrow a car). His answer? You guessed it. “Bye, Felicia!”

“… the usual suspects.”

Casablanca (1942)This is one the parents use a lot. You walk into the house with your friends and any fun you had hoped of having was dashed by dad’s greeting, “Well, well, well. If it isn’t the usual suspects.”

This one is from one of most well-known movies of all time. After expatriate Rick kills a Gestapo officer attempting to apprehend his lady love Ilsa and her husband (awk AF), the morally duplicitous Capt. Renault has the opportunity to turn him in for political favor. Instead, he decides to do the right thing … and blame it on local ne’er-do-wells.

“Round up the usual suspects!”

Well, somebody died for that one. Nice going, Rick.

Were you surprised by any of these quotes?

“Let me slip into something more… comfortable”

Blazing Saddles (1976)
You’ve probably said this one less dramatic and more casual, trying to impart every drop of sexiness into it. Did you know that it came from a spoof? Or that it was actually making fun of a famous line at the time?

Well it was both. And Madeline Khan said it better than you. She said it so well in fact that it caught on and became a staple phrase of both movie characters and real people who get their idea of sexy from movies (like me).

“It’s not personal; it’s business.”

The Godfather (1972)I think I heard this one when a manager let me go but still wanted to be friends because they had no other friends because YOU WERE A PISS POOR MANAGER, GREG!

Anyway.

This one always gets shortened from the original, “It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.”

It’s no surprise that this one lasted. It was meant to be a foreshadowing moment regarding Sonny’s impending death after taking things too personally. Instead, it’s been incorporated into the everyday business world. Someone you know has probably been laid off with this quote. And now you know where their boss got it from.

Did you hear that? I didn’t know FML was from Superbad!

“FML.”

Superbad (2008)
Just how much of a cultural milestone is the raunchy high school comedy from the mid-oughts? So much so that one of its least-remembered lines is actually its most used. It comes during a small moment in a liquor store in which Fogle (aka McLuvin) drops a six-pack of beer that promptly explodes all over the tile. “

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